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evil-and-not-wholly-awesome-firefox
[deprecated since Mozilla turned evil] A list of resources for and about Mozilla Firefox
https://github.com/Hunter-Github/evil-and-not-wholly-awesome-firefox
- Mozilla Firefox - a [bloated](http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2015/06/20/mozilla-making-firefox-bloated/) but versatile popular modern browser with nice user interface. Unfortunately, after Firefox 42 Mozilla has instituted unwelcome changes in how addons work entering the already familiar territory of "walled gardens". Please see the [forks](#firefox-clonesforks) chapter to review your alternatives.
- Changing the configuration - a checklist of things to do with `about:config` to reduce information leaking to Mozilla, Google and other corporate mastodons.
- Firefox vulnerabilities - an up-to-date list of vulnerabilities from US NIST (the official Mozilla list is [here](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/)).
- Certificate Patrol - an extension to watch out for [Man-In-the-Middle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack) (MITM) certificate attacks.
- NoScript - an extension to keep JavaScript activity at a minimum, and protect from cross-site scripting.
- uBlock Origin - a lighter-weight adblocker. All custom rules from AdBlock Edge can be imported through the clipboard. Has dynamic filters.
- AdBlock Edge - adblocker with a slightly different interface</del> (**discontinued in June 2015**).
- uMatrix - request blocker for advanced fine-grained filtering (blocks cookies, iframes, other types of content). Positively awesome, takes no time to learn.
- HTTPS Everywhere - an extension to enforce encrypted protected connections no matter what.
- GreaseMonkey - a versatile extension to rewrite pages on the fly. **WARNING** - official version of GreaseMonkey sends some data to their servers.
- Direct Google - Removes Google redirects and exposes "Cached" links.
- GitHub White NavBar - makes Github navigation bar white.
- GreasyFork
- OpenUser.JS
- spiking
- ScrapBook X - an extension for bookmarking and wholesale saving page content for future perusal.
- LuciFox - an extension for reading e-books in Firefox.
- SQLite Manager - creating, reading, updating etc. SQLite databases from within the browser.
- VimFx - if you have ever wanted to use Vim keyboard shotcuts for browsing in Firefox.
- Wide GitHub - for those who don't like white space.
- Stylish - Github/446d8fd36899a7d9180a) and add it to GreaseMonkey to suit your case.
- LaZagne - recovers passwords.
- PaleMoon - GitHub repo is called [Pale-Moon](https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon).
- IceCat - a GNUish fork which unfortunately lags behind FF at the moment.
- Mozilla Build Instructions - the dev environment is huge.
- Linux build pre-requisites
- 'unstable' Chromium
- awesome-awesome
- awesome-awesomeness
- sindresorhus/awesome
- freshcode - a re-incarnation of Freshmeat, a directory of open-source/free software, with update notifications available.
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